Advanced Node.js Development

Todo.findOneAndRemove method

There are two other ways to remove documents and these are going to be much more useful for us in this section. The first one is going to be Todo.findOneAndRemove. Now, findOneAndRemove is going to work kind of like findOne: it's going to match that very first document, only it's going to remove it. This will also return the document so you can do something with the removed data. The data will be removed from the database but you will get the object back so you can print it to the screen or send it back to the user. This is unlike the remove method. In the remove method we do not get the docs back that got removed, we just get a number saying how many were removed. With findOneAndRemove we do get that information ...